Quotes About Infrastructure

At Amazon, we were not working with the e-commerce division but with the Web services team. We started Flipkart completely from scrap. Moreover, the whole shopping behaviour and infrastructure challenges in the Indian market were different from that in the U.S. and European markets.

When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better.

The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.

The urbanising middle class of the 1960s and 1970s had schools, hospitals, roads, energy services, even cultural institutions - all created by the state, or under its aegis. When liberalisation came along, they were poised and ready for take-off.

What happened with Keystone is it actually poisoned the well for other pipelines that are not as controversial.

We should be working with the governor of Sonora to establish a commercial sea port on the coast of their state.

Portland doesn't have the same kind of infrastructure that the national film hubs have. We struggle with that a little bit.

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

New highways, ports, and runways appear economically foolish if we don't understand the economic growth that flows from such investments.

For cyclone-proof energy infrastructure, we would definitely explore all possibilities, including international support.

Larger Post Panamax ships are critical to securing America's position in a global market, and all our ports, including Jaxport, must be deep enough to handle them.

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Michigan's problems are not partisan problems. Potholes are not political. There is no such thing as Republican or Democratic school kids or drinking water. These challenges affect us all. They make Michigan a harder place to get ahead. A harder place to raise a family. A harder place to run a business.

You are paying for petrol, roads, tolls but what are you getting? Year after year, the roads go bad and then get repaired, but the number of potholes only keep rising.

I love being ankle deep in conversations about sewers and potholes. That's where my heart has always been, and city government has the chance to get it right on both.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.

Roads and bridges can't serve us if they're continually eroded by a worsening climate crisis.

Of course you want a better culture of cycling in the U.K. Better roads. More respect.

It's millions of times more efficient to collect hydroelectric power through a dam than raindrop by raindrop.

Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

We should all agree that we should repair roads and bridges and water systems.

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.